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package org.statcato.statistics.inferential;

import org.statcato.statistics.*;
import org.statcato.utils.HelperFunctions;

/**
 * A hypothesis test for 1 population variance
 * 
 * @author Margaret Yau
 * @version %I%, %G%
 * @since 1.0
 */
public class HypothesisTest1Var {
    int n;  // sample size
    double sigma2;  // hypothesized variance
    double confidenceLevel; // confidence level
    int testType;   // type of test 
    
    /**
     * Constructor.
     * 
     * @param n sample size
     * @param sigma2 hypothesized variance
     * @param confidenceLevel   confidence level
     * @param testType (as defined in {@link HypothesisTest})
     */
    public HypothesisTest1Var(int n, double sigma2, 
            double confidenceLevel, int testType) {
        this.n = n;
        this.sigma2 = sigma2;
        this.confidenceLevel = confidenceLevel;
        this.testType = testType;
    }
    
    /**
     * Returns the test statistics for the given sample variance s2.
     * 

* X2 = (n-1)^2 * s2 / sigma2 * * @param s2 hypothesized population variance * @return test statistic X2 (chi-square) */ public double testStatistics(double s2) { return (n - 1) * s2 / sigma2; } /** * Returns the critical value corresponding to the given confidence * level and type of test. Uses the chi-square distribution. * * @return critical value * @see HypothesisTest */ public String criticalValue() { double alpha = 1 - confidenceLevel; ChiSquareProbabilityDistribution dist = new ChiSquareProbabilityDistribution(n-1); // chi-square distribution if (testType == HypothesisTest.RIGHT_TAIL) return HelperFunctions.formatFloat( dist.inverseCumulativeProbability(1 - alpha), 3); else if (testType == HypothesisTest.LEFT_TAIL) return HelperFunctions.formatFloat( dist.inverseCumulativeProbability(alpha), 3); else // two tail return HelperFunctions.formatFloat( dist.inverseCumulativeProbability(alpha / 2), 3) + ", " + HelperFunctions.formatFloat( dist.inverseCumulativeProbability(1 - alpha / 2), 3); } /** * Returns the p-value corresponding to s2 in a chi-square distribution. * * @param s2 variance * @return p-value */ public double pValue(double s2) { double ts = testStatistics(s2); ChiSquareProbabilityDistribution dist = new ChiSquareProbabilityDistribution(n-1); // chi-square distribution if (testType == HypothesisTest.LEFT_TAIL) return dist.cumulativeProbability(ts); else if (testType == HypothesisTest.RIGHT_TAIL) return 1 - dist.cumulativeProbability(ts); else { // two tail double area = dist.cumulativeProbability(ts); if (area > 0.5) area = 1 - area; return 2 * area; } } }

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